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Do you remember Olive Morris?
Olive Morris was a key figure in Lambeth’s local history. She worked with the Black Panther movement; set up Brixton Black Women’s Group, was a founder member of The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and was central to the squatter campaigns of the 1970s. She died tragically young in 1979 at age 27.
The aim of this weblog is to create a collective portrait of Olive Morris, bringing together the personal memories of those who knew her, and publishing online information and materials relating to her life and work. Lambeth Council has one of its main buildings named after her and yet there is very little information about Olive Morris that is publicly available, especially on the Internet.
This weblog was set up by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre supported by community activist Liz Obi, whose personal archive of documents relating to Olive’s life forms the core of a larger oral history project involving video interviews, performances, educational workshops and exhibitions.
The weblog has been developed with support from Lambeth Archives and was launched as part of Lambeth’s Black History Month Celebrations 2007.
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This weblog will be open for comments for a fixed period of time. Afterwards, the information contained in it will be transferred to the Lambeth Archives website, from where it will be permanently made available to the public. Copyright of all contributions will remain with the authors.
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In partnership with the London Borough of Lambeth
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